{"title":"Molecular Docking and DFT Calculations of Anthracene: Insights from Quantum Chemical Methods","authors":"Rajendran Vijayakumar, Arangarajan Viji, Karuppaiya Vanasundari, Vadivel Balachandran, Antony Prabhu Arockia Dass","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300150","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The molecular structure and spectroscopic data of (2E)-1-(Anthracen-9-yl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)prop-2-en-1-one are obtained from DFT (B3LYP) with 6-31G(d,p) and 6-31G+(d,p) basis set calculations. The geometry of the molecule is fully optimized, vibrational spectra are calculated and fundamental vibrations are assigned on the basis of potential energy distribution (PED) of the vibrational modes. Molecular parameters such as bond length and bond angle are calculated with the same level of theory. The intramolecular charge transfer is calculated by means of natural bond orbital analysis (NBO). Besides, the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), HOMO - LUMO, Fukui functions, RDG and ELF are performed. The biological effect is made on the basis of prediction of molecular docking results.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139051280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermoluminescence Studies of High Energy X-Rays Irradiated Dy3+ Doped Mg0.65Zn0.3Al2O4:0.05Dy Nanophosphor","authors":"Pankaj Pathak, Manisha Singh, Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Ajay Mittal, Snehal Jani, Ranjeet Brajpuriya","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300223","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300223","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The solution combustion synthesis method is employed to prepare Magnesium, Zinc, Aluminate doped with dysprosium (Dy<sup>3+</sup>) using the general formula Mg<sub>(1-x-y)</sub> Zn<sub>(y)</sub>Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>:xDy (x = 0.05 and y = 0.3 mol%). From X-ray diffraction studies, the crystal structure belongs to a cubic close-packed spinel structure with space group Fd3ˉm and an average crystallite size is 26.18 nm. In the Fourier transform infrared spectra, the peaks at 683.69 cm<sup>−1</sup>, 503.12 cm<sup>−1</sup> correspond to the AlO<sub>6</sub> groups. The peak temperature (Tm) from the Thermoluminescent glow curve is recorded at 235°C, 237°C, and 235°C, at irradiation doses of 600 Gy, 800 Gy, and 1000 Gy, respectively. The kinetic parameters are evaluated from the thermoluminescent glow curve by calculating the activation energy (E), order of kinetics (b), and frequency factor (s<sup>−1</sup>). Nanophosphor Mg<sub>0.65</sub>Zn<sub>0.3</sub>Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>:0.05Dy shows sub linear dose relationship at doses 600–675 Gy and 925–1000 Gy. Further, at doses between 675 and 925 Gy, it shows a super linear relationship. The optimum activation energy (E) of 0.77–0.82 eV and negligible fading make it suitable for high radiation thermoluminescent dosimetry.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139036728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stereographic Projection of Theoretical Orientation Relationships Between Crystals of Any Types in Phase Transformation and Precipitation","authors":"Youliang He","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300242","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300242","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Stereographic projection is a classic technology to represent the angular relationships of lattice planes and directions. In some cases, it is necessary to project arbitrary lattice planes or directions of a crystal onto an arbitrary lattice plane of another crystal, e.g., when representing orientation relationships (ORs) in phase transformation or precipitation. Commercial EBSD (electron backscatter diffraction) software cannot illustrate theoretical orientation relationships based purely on the parallelism conditions. This work presents a generalized and unified formulation for stereographic projection of any lattice planes or directions onto any lattice planes of any crystals in the 32 point groups, which is utilized to represent the theoretical orientation relationships between any crystal types. Examples are given to illustrate the correlations of common orientation relationships in both cubic and hexagonal crystals. A procedure is also established to color code and simultaneously project all low-index Miller/Bravais planes or directions of a crystal onto an arbitrary lattice plane of the same crystal, which can be utilized to visualize the crystal symmetry and determine the standard stereographic triangle (SST). All these illustrations are realized in a computer program written in C++ using the OpenGL graphic libraries.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139036521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation and Characterization of Nanocomposite Perovskite Cathode Materials La0.3Sr0.7Fe0.4Ti0.6O3-δ (LSFT) for Low-Temperature SOFCs with Incorporation of Graphene Oxide (GO)","authors":"Khalil Ahmad, Ghazanfar Abbas, M. Ashfaq Ahmad, Zafarullah kazim, Tariq Munir","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300197","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The porous and mixed ionic electronic cathode conductor plays a vital role in the efficient working of low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells. Perovskite composite cathode material La<sub>0.3</sub>Sr<sub>0.7</sub>Fe<sub>0.4</sub>Ti<sub>0.6</sub>O<sub>3-δ</sub> (LSFT) is synthesized using the sol–gel method. Graphene oxide (GO) is integrated in 1 and 1.5 wt.% into the perovskite LSFT cathode to use as a cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (LT-SOFC). Crystal structure analysis is studied by XRD and the crystalline size of samples is determined in the range of 103–73 nm. SEM analysis is used to characterize homogeneous and porous morphology. The FTIR spectral analysis is examined for proposed nanocomposite cathode materials. The electrical conductivities are carried out by four probe method in air atmosphere in the temperature range 300–600 °C and enhanced conductivity is obtained 7 Scm<sup>−1</sup> for LSFT-1.5 wt.% GO sample. For the same sample, a minimum value of area-specific resistance (ASR) of 0.02 Ωcm<sup>2</sup> is obtained. The performance of three-layer fuel cells is tested by supplying H<sub>2</sub> fueled at the anode and oxygen at the cathode terminal of the cell and peak power density is determined to be 362 mWcm<sup>−2</sup> for GO incorporated fuel cell. The prepared cathode can be proposed as a potential candidate for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139036527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seham R. Alharbi, Atef Fayez Qasrawi, Sabah E. Algarni
{"title":"Pb/FeSe Interfaces Designed for Optical Communication Technology","authors":"Seham R. Alharbi, Atef Fayez Qasrawi, Sabah E. Algarni","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300266","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300266","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Herein, thin films of FeSe are coated onto glass and semitransparent Pb substrate of thicknesses of 200 nm. The produced glass/FeSe (GFS) and Pb/FeSe (PFS) are structurally, compositionally, and optically characterized. It is observed that Pb substrates induced the crystallinity of cubic FeSe and cubic PbSe. On average, 21% of the phases in FeSe films are identified as PbSe. Due to the strong orbital overlapping between Pb and FeSe, Pb substrate increases the light absorption, the dielectric constant, the optical conductivity, and the terahertz cutoff frequency by ≈150 %, 180 %, 263 %, and 101 %, respectively. In addition the direct and indirect energy bandgaps shrink from 2.49 and 2.80 to 2.41 and 2.50 eV, respectively. Moreover, treating GFS and PFS as terahertz optical resonators have shown that Pb substrates enhanced the drift mobility and increased the plasmon frequency making it adequate for 6G technology applications. An important feature of the PFS optical resonator is the stability of the terahertz cutoff frequency at 16 THz in the visible range of light. This feature together with the enhanced optical absorption in the visible light region makes the PFS films attractive for visible light communication technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139036773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K.S. Dhivya, K. Karthika, N. Jothibasker, P. Srinivasan
{"title":"Study of Geometrical, Electronic Structure, Spectral, and NLO Properties of Phenyl-Based Azo Dyes of Dye Sensitizer for Solar Cells: A Theoretical Study","authors":"K.S. Dhivya, K. Karthika, N. Jothibasker, P. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300138","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300138","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The molecular geometry, electronic structure, and absorption spectra of some important phenyl derivatives are investigated by using DFT and TD-DFT with B3LYP and CAM-B3LYP functional. The highest HOMO–LUMO energy gap, Non-linear optical properties of dipole moment, polarizability, and hyperpolarizability are calculated. In both methods hyperpolarizability PDP values (16.77 × 10<sup>−30</sup> and 16.59 × 10<sup>−30</sup> esu) are higher than PDNA, PDN, and MPAN dye. The Molecular electrostatic potential shows that PDNA dye has more electronegative potential. Comparing all the dyes, PDP dye shows a higher light harvesting efficiency in the UV–vis region. The vibrational frequencies are assigned based on the potential energy distribution (PED) using the VEDA-4 program.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139036520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ramappa Sangappa Kuri, B. V. Sahana, M. Uday Kumar, R. Swetha, Latha Kumari
{"title":"A Comparative Study on the Structural and Optical Properties of NiMoO4 Nanomaterials Synthesized by Hydrothermal and Solvothermal Route","authors":"Ramappa Sangappa Kuri, B. V. Sahana, M. Uday Kumar, R. Swetha, Latha Kumari","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300178","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300178","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the present work, a transition metal-based ternary oxide of NiMoO<sub>4</sub> nanomaterials is prepared by both hydrothermal and solvothermal methods with various synthesis conditions. Structural evolution as a function of increase in calcination temperature is also discussed. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis presents the surface morphology of as-prepared samples with an apparent change in the particle size under different synthesis conditions. Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX) analysis confirms the chemical composition of the nanomaterials. Structural analysis by X-Ray powder Diffraction (XRD) exhibits the formation of 𝛼 and β-phase of NiMoO<sub>4</sub> and further pure 𝛼-phase is observed at calcination temperature of 650 °C. Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) indicates various functional groups present in NiMoO<sub>4</sub> sample. UV–vis absorption spectra present a broad peak around 220–450 nm. A direct and indirect energy band gap of ≈2.2 and ≈1.9 eV, respectively is calculated for NiMoO<sub>4</sub> nanomaterials synthesized at 180 and 220 °C for 24 h and calcinated at 650 °C. NiMoO<sub>4</sub> nanomaterials and their composites find an application as electrode materials in supercapacitor.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138949471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Groupoid Analysis of Pyroxenes","authors":"Massimo Nespolo, Berthold Stoeger","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300244","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300244","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The structure and space-group symmetry of modular structures can be obtained from the knowledge of the structure and subperiodic symmetry of the modules and of the structure-building operations. This leads to a space groupoid, which contains all the partial operations relating any pairs of modules. Those partial operations that possess a continuation in the whole crystal space are global operations that show up in the space group of the structure. The whole procedure is presented through the example of pyroxenes. The modular structure of these minerals has already been analyzed in the past, but the groupoid construction has only been synthetically described. In this paper, the full step-by-step process is presented, which is largely unknown in the crystallographic community.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138745384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis and Characterization of Single Crystals of Creatininium Hydrochloride for Third-Order NLO Applications","authors":"S. R. Meeraa, M. Parthasarathy","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300133","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300133","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Single crystals of Creatininium hydrochloride (CTNHCl) are grown by the conventional solution growth method using Millipore water at 32 °C. X-ray diffraction reveals that it crystallizes in a monoclinic with a space group of P21/n. Solubility studies are performed at different temperatures. Intermolecular interactions involving distinct molecular moieties are also studied by mapping the 3D Hirshfeld surface and its fingerprint plots. Using FT-IR, spectral analysis is identified. The optical efficiency of the material is studied using UV–vis–NIR and photoluminescence studies. SEM and EDAX analysis are performed for the title compound. Thermal behavior is analyzed, and the material started to melt at 275 °C. Third-order nonlinear properties of the material like β, n<sub>2,</sub>\u0000χ<sup>(3)</sup> values are calculated using the z-scan technique.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138745381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growth, Optical, Thermal, Antibacterial Activity and Computational Study of Highly Efficient Organic NLO Crystal: 2-Amino-1-methyl-4-oxo-4, 5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-ium 4-methyl-benzene-sulfonate","authors":"L. Shyla, A. S. Jebamalar, G. Vinitha","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300141","DOIUrl":"10.1002/crat.202300141","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A good organic single crystal of 2-Amino-1-methyl-4-oxo-4, 5-di-hydro-1<i>H</i>-imidazol-3-ium 4-methyl-benzene-sulfonate (2ADPTS) is grown by slow evaporation technique, and the orthorhombic system with noncentrosymmetric space group (P2<sub>1</sub>2<sub>1</sub>2<sub>1</sub>) is corroborated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The structural parameters of the 2ADPTS crystal are investigated and weighted up with the theoretical interpretation. The Hydrogen–Hydrogen interaction with (43.6%) in 2ADPTS promotes crystal structure packing stabilization. The presence of various functional groups and chemical composition of the 2ADPTS compound is identified by FTIR and FT-Raman spectroscopy. The natural bond orbital evaluation interprets all the possible hydrogen bonding interactions and charge delocalizations in the crystal structure. Thermal analysis confirmed the thermal stability of the 2ADPTS crystal. The absorption spectrum of the 2ADPTS crystal is recorded using UV–Vis spectroscopy. The third-order nonlinear property of the 2ADPTS crystal is confirmed by using the Z-scan technique. The higher significant antibacterial activity of 2ADPTS is carried out by the standard Kirby-Bauer test against four pathogenic bacteria commonly called the agar well diffusion process.</p>","PeriodicalId":48935,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138685659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}